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Hanukkah Lamp
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A prayer (Ha-nerot halalu anu madlikin (“These lights we burn”), usually recited after the blessings for lighting the Hanukkah candles, is inscribed on the back panel of this Hanukkah lamp from…

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Artist Unknown

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

Date:

1574

Subjects:

Ritual object, Ritual & observance, Holidays, Hanukkah, Jewish languages

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Ritual Objects, Decorative Arts
Oil lamp with row of eight cups at the bottom carved with Hebrew inscription and animal heads, and sides resembling buildings.
Yiddish Book of Customs
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This page illustrating the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah is from a Yiddish book of customs from Italy. By the sixteenth century, Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazic Jews were the largest groups of…

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Artist Unknown

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Date:

1500

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Ritual & observance, Yiddish, Holidays, Jewish languages

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Manuscript page with Yiddish text and illustrations below of person blowing horn, several people seated with Torah scroll, someone standing with an open book, and a turret with door.